I parked by the side of a bicycle path and walked a half-mile (each way) to
Old Stuivekens. The town has been relocated about a mile and a half onto a
more main road when the railroad track was taken up in the mid-70’s.
Remaining is a small church, Chapel of Notre Dame of Victory, and the base
of it’s bell tower. The tower was an observation post for the Belgian Army
until German artillery took the tower down.

The notable item, however, was a small stone pillar on which was carved in
Dutch: “Here the conqueror was stopped.” Very few of these markers remain.
During the German occupation during WWII, special units were commissioned
and sent out to obliterate any monuments to the German defeat in World War
One! They missed a few, and this was one of them.

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